M. Scott Peck Quotes
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
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It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
